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Farflier

I’m a traveller from a faraway land

On membranes I glide over the endless desert sand

The sun is setting on my world

Its time to venture out from my home

The air is dry and cold

From my roost – a hole carved into a massive dome

This dome - a remnant of a forest long bygone

I glide over the world in search of dwindling food

Food vanishing like the spire forests long ago, one by one.

I have no name, and yet I still exist

For how long I will still do

I have no clue

Times are hard, yet I still resist

Life will endure as long as it still can

Even if the old world is long gone

We will die out slowly, like the forests, one by one

My guess is that the farflier is a descendant of the lolligolugo, a scansorial scrounger, which lived in the forests. Maybe it evolved to glide in an energy efficient way and widened its diet to survive.
But it appears much more likely that the lolligolugo went extinct and that the kangglider, a Skungaroo, evolved to become the farflier.

Description

Farflier

I’m a traveller from a faraway land

On membranes I glide over the endless desert sand

The sun is setting on my world

Its time to venture out from my home

The air is dry and cold

From my roost – a hole carved into a massive dome

This dome - a remnant of a forest long bygone

I glide over the world in search of dwindling food

Food vanishing like the spire forests long ago, one by one.

I have no name, and yet I still exist

For how long I will still do

I have no clue

Times are hard, yet I still resist

Life will endure as long as it still can

Even if the old world is long gone

We will die out slowly, like the forests, one by one

My guess is that the farflier is a descendant of the lolligolugo, a scansorial scrounger, which lived in the forests. Maybe it evolved to glide in an energy efficient way and widened its diet to survive.
But it appears much more likely that the lolligolugo went extinct and that the kangglider, a Skungaroo, evolved to become the farflier.